Chords for How To Play John Denver My Sweet Lady Introduction

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My Sweet Lady is a nice change of pace because it introduces _ some slightly jazzy
acoustic chords _ from the normal ones we hear from John Denver _ _ and takes us a
little bit further up the neck too.
So let's take a look at what we've got
going on here.
_ Let's take it bar by bar.
Have your tab in front of you.
That's
going to be the easiest to follow this song and we'll start with the intro and
the first bar of the intro which sounds like this. _ _ _
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_ _ _ Now [B] the right hand pattern for
this and for almost the whole of the song is very simple.
The right hand [Gb] pattern is
simply going root note of the chord which here is the fourth string [D] and then
and then three two and one together.
I use these two fingers _ for that.
If you
prefer to use _ _ these two, ring and middle, go ahead and do it _ and _ _ _ then back to
three again.
Four, three, two, one, three.
With two, one being played together.
_ [B] Okay now our
first chord shape is a D major 7 shape but if you're familiar with D [Eb] major 7
like that, which by the way does happen later in the song, _ this is [D] a different
voicing of that chord.
We're [F] going to see three voicings of this chord during the
song.
It's the first string [Eb] 9th fret, [Ab] second string 10th fret, [Db] third string 11th fret.
And we'll play our right hand pattern that we just looked at [D] twice. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] first bar.
Now for the second bar, the chord E minor over [D] D is simply this same
shape brought down two frets _ so that the index finger is on the seventh fret
and play exactly the same right hand pattern we just played.
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_ _ _ [D] Chord number three
[N] is a normal D chord, not like that though, a different voicing.
First string fifth
fret and then I use the ring and middle [F] fingers to play the second and third
strings of the seventh fret.
With [N] that shape we play the same pattern in the
right [D] hand. _
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_ _ _ _ And then we want [Bm] E minor over [Db] D again but a different voicing of E
minor [F] over D.
First string third fret, [Bb] fourth string, third string fourth fret
and [N] second string fifth fret.
You can either use the ring finger here or [Eb] let
the little finger continue on the second string from where it was in the previous
chord, whichever fingering you prefer.
And [D] we'll play the same right hand pattern. _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ That'll [D] take us into beginning to sing the song.
[Gb] _ That's the end of the [D] intro and
into the verse.
So the intro again _ and _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ we'll go back [Fm] to our original D major [Bm] 7
chord as we begin to sing.
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